Favourite book of 2010 so far...need inspiration!

[greedygoose]

Just finished Brooklyn (April book of month) Im a little slow! on my to read next list is:
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry, Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (never read) and I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith because I had never heard of it and you lot all seem to love it. Any more recommendations out there?

american wife
19th wife
finest kind of english womanhood
lily aphrodite
the gate at the stairs( nuts but good)
one day ( bad but good)
guersney( kind of naff but ok)
the oustcast i liked not wild about.
alone in berlin
Hunting evil abotu nazi war criminals
BROOKLYN loved

um..that's crap not carp, no fish involved in any way

What is Brooklyn about?

did not like that stupid book group on halo something
didnt like the one by jane bussman utter crap
didnt like LAcuna one
dindt like hearts and minds amanda craig was dire

oh just buy it
you cantFAIL to like it

I am very fussy! I need to know more.

oh the new boyd one was averaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge
Scossboro was good

the douglas kennedy was suitbale terrible good

emigration to US in er.. god was it the 50s
dunno is fabbol
lily thing is good too aphrodite - onyl one step from cookson but involving

scottsboro

vg
and i liked one on zimbabwe ( no dont doze off its reallyintersting " when the crocodile eats the sun" or somehting peter godwin

Okay - adds Brooklyn to potential holiday reading list.

my cousin nicked my copy of This Thing of Darkness BEFORE I HAD A CHANCE TO READ it!

the bitch

her eis GREAT and stays with you

andhtis one by the times guy sathnam sanghera is great for any family that likes the odd secret - and really relvant for any of us who grew up in the late 70s/80s

that was on A Good Read radio 4 , the topknot one

id forgoten about htis too - is fab

yes is really a GREAT book
and htis is rather sad but worth having read

ok have hogged.
I need to iron now.

I read Once In A House On Fire years ago - and was v underwhelmed by it.

you just Dont Care do you?

Nope - can't be doing with family angst stuff. It reminds me of those awful articles in women's magazines.

I don't like angsty 'real-life' stuff at all. I like desperately depressing films, with never ending misery and a high body count!

(I'm a Hardy Gal at heart!)
The Road was my favourite so far this year, though there was a faint glimmer of hope at the end which disturbed me.

Am reading stuff on Mathematics at the moment for some reason.

Oooh Brooklyn is fab.

I like Lorna Landvik and Laurie Graham as well.

Love the idea of you being disturbed by the faint glimmer of hope. Dp and dd1 both loved The Road but it irritated me.

So glad this thread is still going! Have pen and paper at the ready - am currently reading A fine Balance after recommended at the beginning of the thread and is amazing so far, am very tired not because of dc but this book keeping me up at night!